Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-29
THE SCIENCE OF THE PEN.
How to Tell Pecu1iarities of People By
Their Observation-Disclosures That De.

How to Tell Peculiarities of People by
! Their Penmanship-Fl0urish That De-
| note Vanity and Conceft.
| New York Mail and Express.
America is the country par excellence
in which the undergraduates RACES
with uncompromising virulence. It is
said that young lady of this class once
asked w. D. HowelIs for his signature
shortly after the publication Of "The
Lady of the Aroostook," "a Foregone
Conclusion" and "Venetian Life"
Thereupon he wrote some impromptu
verses in her album. She read them
over, and then exclaimed, her pretty face
bursting into an encouraging smile: 30
Mr.. Howells, I should think you might
do something for The papers and maya
zines, I've seen much worse things than
that in print"
And then the things they ask for |
These are the sort of letters one receives:
"Dear Mr.. Gladstone: should be glad
if you would give me the original manu-
script of your speech on the Irish ques-
ton. Yours, etc." As one steps upon
the platform of the American railway
depot the engine driver will step down
with grimy triangular strip of paper
and stumpy pencil and beg for ones
autograph, the newsboy whom one
patronizes from the window OF the saloon
is ready with his stylograph to receive
ones signature on the fibroas margin of
newspaper. for which he will boldly ask
dollar or more, "with autograph of o.
ar Wilde complete r. On menus for the
restaurant, on visiting card for the Casual
wayfarer, in albums for the enthusiastic
and Authenticated Medah K. Beings, al
ways the same, autographs. autographs,
autographs, from the cradle to the grave,
if not at periods anterior ard posterior
to these hating places Of human exist
ence. A few years age symposium Of
the most prosecuted was held at Cam
bridge, Mass, and the following main
rules in the matter were propounded
and adopted:
l. Autographs are to be sent, some
times to men, never to women, always
to children.
2. The letter requesting the auto
graphs must be accompanied by stamp
for reply.
3. It must be Distinctly. nrnnliment-
ary, a mere bold request, or, as is more
often the case, demand, not being suf-
fcient.
The sale of autographs in America is
regularly recognized branch of COM
MERGE. Every well-known autograph
has it's recognized market value, and a
gentleman tells us of Mr.. Gladstone's
letter expressing his inability to comply
with request for subscription to an
American charity, being sold in aid of
hat charity for distinctly acceptable
rice. A writer in the Globe, in the
month of June last, tells us that almost
simultaneously with the visit of DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes to England, the
original M. s. of the zone Hoss Shay"
was discovered in New York, and, was
purchased by Mr.. Franklin Tinker for a
considerable sum. That the handwrit-
ing has certain marked characteristics
in every individual, and that these char
acteristics, properly examined and inter-
preted, according to given rules and
methods, will tell US more concerning
the individual character of the writer, is
an established fact, and the tabulation Of
these rules and of this method is now
in the works of such acknowl- |
edged authorities, as Rosa Baughan,
Liable Flandrin, and Adolphe Henze.
Adrien Desbarrolles, in his major work,
Lies Mysteres de la Main: Revelations
suite ct fin" Paris, 1917,
has devoted some two hundred pages
TO this branch of the science of the hand,
besides being the author of standard
work on the subject, so that g1aphology,
Dr., sit is sometimes called, "grammato-
boasts literature of it's own,
hat it is not my intention to supple
nent in this place." The more I COM
pare different handwriting" says Lava
;er in his "Physiognomische Fragmente
zur Beforderung der "Menschenkennt-
Hiss, u. s. W." (Leipsic, 1859, ''the
more I am convinced that handwriting
s the expression of the character of him
Who writes. Each nation has its nation
j character of writing as the physiog-
,omy of each people expresses the most
alient points of character in the ma
ion," and may quote the remark of
Rosa Baughan Cop. Cit, p. }: "That
he handwriting really reflects the per-
onality of the writer is evident from the
act that it alters and develops with the
that it becomes firm when
he character strengthens; weak and
eeble when the person who writes is ill
r agitated, and erratic when he is IN d,
Ter the influence of great joy, grief, or !
ny other passion"
Writing which has a tendency to as
end toward the end of the lines denotes
.lways ambition, prosperity and success,
7hile writing which, on the contrary,
Las tendency to descend betrays mel
ncholy, ill-health and taciturnity. If